This document contains the retelling of a fairy tale and some tips on how to lead a class on the subject.

1. Activity:
Retelling of a
fairy tale
Level:
4º E.P.
Student: Mercedes Martin
Panero
Skills: Listening,
Reading and Speaking
Teacher: María
Clarines Bando
Subject: Tecnologías de la Información Aplicadas al
Aprendizaje de la Lengua Inglesa.
Degree: Grado en Educación Primaria
College: UNIR, La Rioja
Students will listen and read a fairy tale, and the teacher will help
Software: Word
them think about it by reading and suggesting questions.
Retelling of the fairy tale of
Rumpelstiltskin, compiled by Grimm
brothers:
Here I present a retelling of the
classic Grimm’s fairy tale.
This wonder tale recounts the story
of the beautiful daughter of a poor
miller.
O
nce upon a time, there was a Miller
who was very proud of her beautiful
daughter.
The miller, in order to make
himself appear important in front of the king, in an act
of weakness, boasts that his daughter could spin
straw into gold. The kings required the miller to give
him his beautiful daughter.

2. Activity:
Retelling of a
fairy tale
Level:
4º E.P.
Student: Mercedes Martin
Panero
Skills: Listening,
Reading and Speaking
Teacher: María
Clarines Bando
Subject: Tecnologías de la Información Aplicadas al
Aprendizaje de la Lengua Inglesa.
Degree: Grado en Educación Primaria
College: UNIR, La Rioja
Students will listen and read a fairy tale, and the teacher will help
Software: Word
them think about it by reading and suggesting questions.
The king lacked the girl in a tower full of straw.
Inside the tower there was also a wheel, and the
young girl was threatened with death if she hadn’t
completely the difficult task the next morning.
Lonely and helpless, the girl feels
miserable and cries, until, suddenly, a magic
dwarfish man comes to help the girl. They make an
agreement: She should give him a precious gift in
exchange.
 First day: She gives him a necklace in
exchange. So the strange man started whirr,
whirrs, and whirr three times until the room
was full of golden thread.
 Second day: Although the greedy king was
delighted he locked the girl into a larger
room full of straw and threatened
unfortunate girl again. Powerless, and feeling
incapable for accomplishing king’s
commands, the girl cries until

3. Activity:
Retelling of a
fairy tale
Level:
4º E.P.
Student: Mercedes Martin
Panero
Skills: Listening,
Reading and Speaking
Teacher: María
Clarines Bando
Subject: Tecnologías de la Información Aplicadas al
Aprendizaje de la Lengua Inglesa.
Degree: Grado en Educación Primaria
College: UNIR, La Rioja
Students will listen and read a fairy tale, and the teacher will help
Software: Word
them think about it by reading and suggesting questions.
the dwarf magically offers her a new deal;
she would give him a ring in exchange for
spinning the straw into glittering gold.
 Third day: Disappointingly it wasn’t enough
for the demanding king, who holds poor
girl one night more for her to turn the straw
into finest gold thread. And the king
promises to marry the girl next morning, if
she success on her duty.
Nevertheless third time the girl had nothing to
give in exchange to the magic man. Unexpectedly, the
dwarf asks the girl the firstborn baby she would have
when she became a queen. Innocent girl agreed, he
turned the straw into gold and she became a queen.
When after a year, the dwarf appeared again to
take away the baby, she cried helpless and little man

4. Activity:
Retelling of a
fairy tale
Level:
4º E.P.
Student: Mercedes Martin
Panero
Skills: Listening,
Reading and Speaking
Teacher: María
Clarines Bando
Subject: Tecnologías de la Información Aplicadas al
Aprendizaje de la Lengua Inglesa.
Degree: Grado en Educación Primaria
College: UNIR, La Rioja
Students will listen and read a fairy tale, and the teacher will help
Software: Word
them think about it by reading and suggesting questions.
gave her a chance: She would have tree days to make
a guess on his name.
 On first day: She inquired on the subject, but
she failed the name.
 On second day: She tried hard, but she failed
the name once again.
 On the third day: Desperately, the queen
cunningly spies the dwarf at his house in
the forest, and saw little man happily jumping
and signing for having won the queen’s baby:
Ja,ja,ja Queen’s baby is mine, because nobody
would ever know that Rumpelstinskin is my
name!

5. Activity:
Retelling of a
fairy tale
Level:
4º E.P.
Student: Mercedes Martin
Panero
Skills: Listening,
Reading and Speaking
Teacher: María
Clarines Bando
Subject: Tecnologías de la Información Aplicadas al
Aprendizaje de la Lengua Inglesa.
Degree: Grado en Educación Primaria
College: UNIR, La Rioja
Students will listen and read a fairy tale, and the teacher will help
Software: Word
them think about it by reading and suggesting questions.
When she guessed the right name, the anger dwarf
plunged his right foot deep into the earth. Then his
whole leg went in deep inside, and when in range, he tried
to pull at his left so hard with both hands that he tore
himself in two parts. And she lived happily ever after.
[Classic Fairy Tales,(n.d).
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/shortstories/UBooks/Rum.shtml]
[Rumpelstiltskin, bed time stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjDUcEWQ5U
]
Those are some suggestions on how we could lead the communicative interaction in class. Main goal is
to make the tale meaningful for children. They will listen and read the story. And then they will be asked about
it, and we all will try to understand the meaning by talking about it:
Number three structures the whole story; it could be understood as a symbol of children struggle to
overcame difficulties. Number tree would help us organize the retelling, and would help children understand.
The Miller might symbolize certain cynicism children do appreciate in adult’s behavior; he says his
daughter is able to do difficult things for a girl. The miller is a good although weak father, who recklessly
exposes her daughter to enormous dangers, without doing anything, and therefore the girl feels miserable.
The king might represent the feeling of frustration because adults don’t fulfill their promises some

6. Activity:
Retelling of a
fairy tale
Level:
4º E.P.
Student: Mercedes Martin
Panero
Skills: Listening,
Reading and Speaking
Teacher: María
Clarines Bando
Subject: Tecnologías de la Información Aplicadas al
Aprendizaje de la Lengua Inglesa.
Degree: Grado en Educación Primaria
College: UNIR, La Rioja
Students will listen and read a fairy tale, and the teacher will help
Software: Word
them think about it by reading and suggesting questions.